Dissociable Memory- and Response-Related Activity in Parietal Cortex during Auditory Spatial Working Memory

Attending and responding to sound location generates increased activity in parietal cortex which may index auditory spatial working memory and/or goal-directed action. Here, we used an n-back task (Experiment 1) and an adaptation paradigm (Experiment 2) to distinguish memory-related activity from t...

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Main Authors: Claude Alain, Dawei Shen, He Yu, Cheryl Grady
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2010-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00202/full